1681-82: Hooke's Philosophical Collections

The four letters (AB 66 - 69) that Leeuwenhoek wrote in these years all went to Hooke and all were published in Philosophical Collections.

number	published	letter written	AvL #	# figures
1	1 November 1679, pp. 3-5	25 April 25 1679	28	the 1 figure
2	1681
3	10 December 1681, pp. 51-58	12 November 1680	33	7 of 8 figures
4	10 January 1682, pp. 93-98	4 November 1681	34	all 4 figures
5	February 1682, pp. 152-160	3 March 1682	35	all 6 figures
6	March 1682
7	April 1682, pp. 188-190	4 April 1682	36	none

For a chronology of events and letters in 1680, see What happened? and Learn more below.

Sources

Year	Author	Title
1679 - 1682	Hooke, R.	Philosophical Collections
1682	Leeuwenhoek, A. van	An account of several curious Discoveries ... made by Mr. Anth. Leuwenhoek with Microscopes

What happened?

Date	Event
January 1, 1681	Sat for Cornelis de Man's Anatomy Lesson of Dr. 's Gravezande
January 22, 1681	The Royal Society read Francis Aston's translation of Letter L-111 of 1680-11-12 about the lees of ale and wine
April 29, 1681	cousin Jannitgen Huijchs Leeuwenhoek buried
June 8, 1681	cousin Maria Maertens Leeuwenhoek married Jan den Appel
June 17, 1681	co-worker Daniel Bogaert buried
August 9, 1681	nephew Anthonij Jans de Molijn married Magdalena van Poelgeest
November 12, 1681	Robert Hooke produced Letter L-114 of 1681-11-04 from Leeuwenhoek
November 19, 1681	Robert Hooke read Letter L-114 of 1681-11-04
November 26, 1681	Members of the Royal Society discussed Leeuwenhoek's observations of hair
December 3, 1681	Members of the Royal Society discussed Leeuwenhoek's microscopes
March 11, 1682	Robert Hooke read the first part of Letter L-116 of 1682-03-03 about striated muscle fibres of mammals and fishes
March 18, 1682	Robert Hooke read part of Letter L-116 of 1682-03-03 about muscle fibers
March 20, 1682	Robert Hooke wrote Letter L-117 to Leeuwenhoek that his observations were well received by the Royal Society
April 1, 1682	Philosophical Collections number 7 published in London, including Leeuwenhoek's Letter L-119 of 1682-04-04
April 15, 1682	Robert Hooke read his Letter L-117 of 1682-03-20 and Leeuwenhoek's reply, Letter L-119 of 1682-04-04 about muscles of crabs, lobsters, and shrimp
November 19, 1682	Sold two bonds from the property of Willem Bolnes to help pay Catherina Bolnes' creditors

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Related letters:

What Leeuwenhoek wrote ...
Wrote Letter L-080 of 1679-04-25 to Nehemiah Grew about living little animals in fish, hare, and dogs and his calculation that more than ten times as many living animals come from the milt of a cod as there are people living on the Earth
Wrote Letter L-111 of 1680-11-12 to Robert Hooke about blood globules, lees of wine, globules in rain water, milk vessels, reproduction, little animals in the male seed of animals, and their incomprehensible smallness
Wrote Letter L-114 of 1681-11-04 to Robert Hooke about hog bristles, shedding hair, blackheads; living little animals in excrement, horse urine, clay, and gout
Wrote Letter L-116 of 1682-03-03 to Robert Hooke about muscle fibres, hair, the cell nucleus in the erythrocytes of fishes, the liver of salmons, beards of oysters, and the structure and growth of oyster shell
Wrote Letter L-119 of 1682-04-04 to Robert Hooke about the structure of the muscle tissue of lobsters and shrimps.
Wrote Letter L-120 of 1682-07-28 to Robert Hooke, now lost, asking whether figures of the anatomy of wood in Letter L-097 of 12 January 1680 will be published in print

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